24 March 2017, 18:00, ICA Cinema Film: 327 Notebooks: The Diaries of Ricardo Piglia [327 Cuadernos: los diarios de Ricardo Piglia], Andrés Di Tella, Argentina/Chile 2015, DCP, 76 minutes, Spanish with English Subtitles A moving and meditative essay film by Argentine writer-director Andrés Di Tella about the diaries of one of the greatest novelists in the Spanish language, Ricardo Piglia (Artificial Respiration), who died in January of 2017. In the film, Piglia returns to Argentina after having lived abroad for many years. He comes back with the purpose of reviewing for the first time the 327 notebooks that constitute his personal diary, the record of his life for more than half a century. A kind of cinematic diary about diaries, Di Tella’s film follows Piglia for a year, during which time the writer is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease. As critic Haden Guest writes, this unexpected turn of events gives “a sudden and sad urgency” to the film, which becomes, as a result, “an important chapter in Piglia’s life and an inspiration for a new, heroic and possibly final diary project”. After the screening, filmmaker Andrés Di Tella was in conversation with John Kraniauskas (CILAVS, Birkbeck). In collaboration with Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.